Product Description

Combining all of the leading interfaces into one drive, the LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface now also comes in higher capacities to handle your most demanding projects and storage needs. It can be easily shared among multiple users and environments and is conveniently plug & play. With up to 800Mbits/s per bus and up to 64MB/s per drive burst, it's ideal for a variety of professional applications, including digital audio/video, graphic design and system backups. It can be conveniently stacked, stood upright or rack-mounted, and it's specially designed to be ultra-quiet and dissipate heat.

Product Details

• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 300793U
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.80" h x 1.70" w x 6.30" l, 3.31 pounds
• Memory: 8MB
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

• Capacity - Up to 500GB
• FireWire 400/800 Transfer Rate - 400/800 Mbits/s
• USB 2.0 Transfer Rate - Up to 34MB/s
• Average Seek Time - Less than 10ms
• Rotational Speed - 7200RPM

From the Manufacturer
This trusted, popular ingeniously designed drive now offers higher capacities, triple interface (FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0) and Extreme speed, making it ideal for professional audio/video editing, graphic design and system backups.

Combining all of the leading interfaces into one drive, the LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface now also comes in higher capacities to handle your most demanding projects and storage needs. It can be easily shared among multiple users and environments and is conveniently plug & play. With up to 800 Mbps per bus and up to 64 MBps per drive burst, it’s ideal for a variety of professional applications, including digital audio/video, graphic design and system backups. It can be conveniently stacked, stood upright or rack-mounted, and it’s specially designed to be ultra-quiet and dissipate heat.

Customer Reviews

Failed after 13 months - no repair available from LaCie
I purchased this device thru Amazon. After 13 months of good service, the disk failed. LaCie service quotes: "Unfortunately, the drive is past its one-year warranty and we are unable to repair it. We do not perform out-of-warranty repairs. It is usually
more cost effective to purchase a new unit."

$500 for 13 months suggests questionable value.

A company not offering out-of-service repair work is also concerning.

HORRIBLE - UNRELIABLE - DONT BUY!!
This drive died 8 months after I bought it - I lost all of my content - Lacie's suggestion "buy a 2nd drive!" yeah right - The drive was under warantee when it crashed - but now 6 months after the year warranty, the replacement drive has also crashed.

DO NOT BUY THE LARGER 500 Gig Drives - the bridge between the drives WILL CRASH.

I've gotten some reall good use out of their smaller model drives (knock on wood)

BUT STEER CLEAR OF THIS BIG DRIVE.

Oh and you know your drive is going to crash when the drive starts slowing down and takes 10 minutes just to open.

I'll never buy another Lacie drive.
I own four Lacie external hard drives (three 500 GB and one 250 GB). Before you put one or more of these drives in your shopping cart, I suggest you consider the following 1) What is really inside this shiny case? I took a similar drive (the D2 Big Disk Triple Interface) apart when it failed after three years and inside were two 250 GB Western Digital desktop drives. I found out from some tech experts that WD drives are less reliable than some brands (such as top-rated Seagate and Hitachi) because they draw more current which can fry the rather weak bridges made by Lacie. Bridge failure was what happened to my drive. 2) What is the warranty period for this drive? Lacie's warranty period is only one year, while other more reliable drives (again Seagate and Hitachi) have warranties up to five years. Warranties are obviously important, especially for hard drives, and these other manufacturers stand by their products. 3) What sort of support does Lacie give if the drive fails when it is out of warranty? When my drive failed (after only three years of light use), I tested the two WD hard drives inside and they were OK. So I called Lacie to see if the bridge (inside the Lacie case) could be repaired or replaced. They told me that they offered no out-of-warranty service or repairs for any of their hard drives (at any price). They even suggest that I look for replacement parts on eBay! So if it fails, and it's out of warranty, you're out of luck! I now see Lacie as more of a hard drive packager than a hard drive manufacturer, and their support is abysmal. I'll never buy another Lacie drive.